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  <Title>Bidirectional Incremental Generation and Analysis with Categorial Grammar and Indexed Quasi-Logical Form.</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="227" end_page="227" type="concl">
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6. Conehlsion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A system for parsing and generation based on combinatory categorial grammar and quasi-logical form has been presented. The system seems to score high on at least the following points:  The system is bi-directional in the sense that given a quasi-logical form, that the parser would have produced had it been given the same string, the generator will produce the same string. Of course, this is the case only if we choose to usc exactly the same rules (and lexicon) for both parsing and generation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The large repertoire of grammatical phenomena that can (potentially) be handled in the system is due to the fact that it was possible, without much performance penalty (due to the use of the Hepple-Morrill method of eliminating spurious ambiguity), to implement, on top of forward and backward application, rules such as type raising and functional composition. This enables many forms of discontinuity phenomena to be treated.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The framework used also seems to offer some interesting possibilities for incremental generation, which is particularly pertinent for surface generation within the context of dialogue systems.</Paragraph>
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